“As there were layoffs last year, I expect that … it is inevitable that there will be layoffs this year,” Preckwinkle said at a press conference at the County Building on Wednesday.

Most of last year’s county budget shortfall was the result of $264 million in lost revenue from Preckwinkle following through on a campaign promise to roll back the remaining half cent on the dollar sales tax hike enacted by her predecessor, Todd Stroger.

Because this year’s budget hole isn’t as deep as last year’s, it’s likely fewer layoffs will be necessary.

Earlier in the year, Preckwinkle predicted the budget shortfall to be $250 million to $300 million.

Preckwinkle would like to have the new budget approved by the end of the county’s fiscal year on Nov. 30. The current year’s budget was not approved until late February, largely because of the turnover at the county board.

A body was discovered Sunday in the search-and-recovery mission for a west suburban woman who went missing off a northwest Indiana beach after she and two other swimmers got caught in a rip current Friday evening.

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